As a result of the operation, a planned rally for the schoolgirls of Minab was cancelled. Gather4Gaza had called for a protest at 8pm in Syntagma Square in memory of the girls from a primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, who were killed in the US-Israeli attacks on the country.
‘Tonight’s protest rally for the Minab girls is cancelled. The police raided our comrade’s house and are holding him while they continue to search the house. The rally is temporarily cancelled until further notice. There is a possibility of a rally at GADA if they are transferred there,’ the collective said.
In a later update, the collective said the member had been arrested and was being taken to GADA, while calling for a rally at 7.30pm on Friday.
In a separate statement on Saturday afternoon, Konstantina Kartsioti of the Anti-Imperialist Front said she had been followed by police.
‘Yesterday, 20 March 2026, late in the afternoon, as I was leaving my house in the Exarchia neighbourhood with the intention of going to the announced rally at GADA for the comrade arrested by the Gather4Gaza collective, I noticed the presence of security forces in front of my house, on the nearby streets, on foot and in vehicles,’ she said.
‘As this is not the first time I have encountered such a situation, I am well aware of the methods used by repressive state mechanisms to monitor the homes of activists and political spaces. Returning home in the evening, the police presence continued, culminating in them following me with excessive audacity wherever I moved in the neighbourhood.’
She said she did not consider the timing coincidental and linked the incidents to Greece’s stance on the war in the region and to anti-war mobilisation in solidarity with Iran, Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen.
Kartsioti also referred to the arrest of the Gather4Gaza member on misdemeanor charges and to a planned rally in Syntagma Square over what she described as the killing of 168 girls in the bombing of a school in Minab, as well as to an event scheduled for the following day with speakers from resistance organisations in Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen.
‘Our struggle against imperialism, Zionism and their collaborators will continue, no matter how much they intensify repressive pressure,’ she said.
She ended her statement by calling for the immediate release of the arrested Gather4Gaza member.
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